Restaurants
Nick Lander – aka Mr Jancis Robinson – was the Financial Times restaurant critic from 1989 to 2022. Now, every Sunday, he writes about restaurants exclusively for us, with occasional contributions from other food-obsessed members of the JancisRobinson.com team.
Restaurant reviews
Nick on restaurants
Alta, an oasis of calm – for now
A new restaurant in one of central London’s busiest fast-food nuclei is strongly Spanish-influenced. Brave the crowds on Regent Street and Carnaby Street in London’s West End; ignore the charms...
Nick Lander
Sunday 30 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Farewell Rachel Cooke and Skye Gyngell
Nick Lander
Saturday 29 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Only one question kept bothering me after our highly...
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Nick on restaurants
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Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. On the second, unofficial day of spring precisely a...
Nick on restaurants
There is a notion that I subscribe to, and I may even have initiated, that the walls of every restaurant...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. I first met Josh Katz and Eran Tibi about...
Nick on restaurants
I accepted an invitation to join a lunch organised by Jaume Marín, the marketing director of the Costa Brava Tourist...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. There were three separate occasions when as a restaurateur...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. My seat at a table for two at Lorne...
Nick on restaurants
Today, every restaurant has to have a website. But in the case of the three very different London restaurants I...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
As he approaches his sixtieth birthday, chef Chris Galvin...
Nick on restaurants
This is an article that I write most reluctantly. I hate putting restaurants into lists, whether it is the World’s...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Every year I look forward to the Chinese New...
Nick on restaurants
The restaurant was busy on a wet Wednesday lunchtime and it has been since it first opened its doors in...
Nick on restaurants
It now takes the fingers of both hands to count up the number of smart Indian restaurants that occupy significant...
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1 February 2020 The Square and Morton's go into administration. See this account in Hot Dinners.
20 January 2018 A...